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There's a man, and there's a womanLiving right above you in apartment GThere's a lot of noise coming through the ceiling, And it don't sound like harmonyYou can sit there with your TV turned upWhile the words in his anger flyBut, come tomorrow when you see her with her shades on,Can you look her in the eye?

What if she's an angel sent here from heaven and she's making sure that you're doing you best to take the time to love one another. Brother, are you gonna pass that test? You can go on with your day-to-day...trying to forget what you saw on her face; knowing deep down, you could have been her saving grace.What if she's an angel?

A little girl, on daddy's lap,Hiding her disease with a baseball cap.You can turn the channel; Most people do.But what if you were sitting in her daddy's shoes?

Maybe she's an angel sent here from heaven and she's making sure that you're doing your best to take the time to love one another. Brother, are you gonna pass that test. You can go on with your day-to-day...trying to forget what you saw on her face. Knowing deep down, you could have been her saving grace.

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------------------------------Did You Know? One in every four women will experience domestic violence in her lifetime. An estimated 1.3 million women are victims of physical assault by an intimate partner each year. The majority (73%) of family violence victims are female. Females were 84% of spousal abusevictims and 86% of abuse victims at the hands of a boyfriend. Historically, females have been most often victimized by someone they knew. Females who are 20-24 years of age are at the greatest risk for intimate partner violence.

Children Who Witness· Witnessing violence between ones parentsor caretakers is the strongest risk factor oftransmitting violent behavior from onegeneration to the next.· Boys who witness domestic violence aretwice as likely to abuse their own partnersand children when they become adults.· 30% to 60% of perpetrators of intimatepartner violence also abuse children in thehousehold.

Sexual Assualt and Stalking» One in six women and one in 33 menhave experienced an attempted orcompleted rape.» Nearly 7.8 million women have been rapedby an intimate partner at some point in theirlives.» 1 in 12 women and 1 in 45 men will bestalked in their lifetime.» 81% of women stalked by a current orformer intimate partner are also physicallyassaulted by that partner; 31% are alsosexually assaulted by that partner.

Repoting Rates* Only approximately one-quarter ofall physical assaults, one-fifth of allrapes, and one-half of all stalkingsperpetuated against females byintimate partners are reported to thepolice.* Domestic violence is one of themost chronically underreportedcrimes.

IF YOU NEED HELPFor more information or to get help, please call:THE NATIIONAL DOMESTIIC VIIOLENCE HOTLIINE at 1-800-799-7233THE NATIONAL SEXUAL ASSAULT HOTLINE AT 1-800-656-4673THE NATIONAL TEEN DATING ABUSE HOTLINE AT 1-866-331-9474

----------------------------**All the above information taken from [link] as Part of National Domestic Violence Awareness Month

I'm sorry I never saw this sooner. I sadly never use this site anymore. If you're still looking for a way to use it now or in the future you're more than welcome to. If you don't mind showing me the finished product, that's always nice. Since I likely won't see the comment/note, feel free to email blacknwhite.color@yahoo.com. No worries if you forget Permission to use whatever you see fit here

ah, you and me both darling -- i only sign on for maybe like a half hour at most anymore and my phones almost alwyas off -- but, we're still trucking along.
and i'm so so so sorry that things are rough for you; i love you more than life; know that always

aw, wellll, it's a long story, but i was really really upset and broken about some pretty serious stuff -- nothing like, oh my boyfriend blahblahblah. *sigh*. but, i actually self-timed the photo because i needed it for something i was working on and right in the middle of being upset my camera was on the shelf and i needed something authentic. timer on, ignored it, right back to what was going on. got a shot

First of all, as always, you's ridiculously pretty here. However, I know you'd want a more meaningful comment than that, so...I get this entirely. It reminds me alot of watching my mother in binds with my father and stepfather. As a child I couldn't help but bawl and want it all to stop, and as a teenager, I couldn't help but want to kill my stepdad. With this, the contrast between the two moods is actually kind of powerful. *super ultra mega glomp* I think you need that...

ha, 'ridiculously pretty'... more like pretty ridiculous
but, man, another round of serious amounts of symbolism that you totally caught onto. to me for this one, i think it played on two main levels. one being how things really aren't how they always appear -- the one who could be a disshelved mess is really an angel ((or often more personally the reverse as it pertains to myself most commonly is that i could appear together, but that's not what's on the other side at all)) ... but also that i'd give anything for someone TO see that normal dissheveled mess on the right and save me. be my saving grace. give me the chance to be something more and live up to the face i put out there -- insteeeead of ignoring me, shunning me, having nothing to do with me. and, then the last line about that song, just reminded me of physical health, cancer, etc. and that struck a meaningful chord to me on a different note entirely, though still within the same.

Don't be. I understood for the most part, but gosh did you say so much in so few words. That's heavy stuff and I know where you're coming from. It seems a common desire, that want for someone to fix you, and it's maddening; I know. You wants a hug? I can't make it all better, but sometimes a hug works pretty nicely

Rofl, glomp away. It's not that heavy, because I do get you entirely. In my case, I've realized I gotta reassemble myself because other people will just pick me apart more, but in your case...I think you need other people to some extent, just to keep you afloat. That's not to say you're weak or incapable, so don't get me wrong for a second; but I think you benefit alot more from the presence of others than I do, probably a bit more wary than I tend to be. At any rate, now I'm getting into the heaviness lol

that's not getting into the heaviness--that's just getting to honesty. and, i think that we're even -- whereas you need to reassemble because others will pick you apart, i feel like i've already been picked apart and just KEEP getting picked apart sooo, i want to keep shying away from everyone like you feel you need to do some. but, for you, i see your reaching out ((with the right boundaries)) as a positive strength and wouldn't wish you to be more "reserved" for the life of you! ... andddd, i'll still just have to fight you on the idea i need other people. i don't know. i didn't "take it the wrong way" .. i just can't personally ((with my emotions in tact)) agree for a second. now, if i stepped away and thought purely logistics, we'd have an agreement i bet. but, no no no is all i can think in immediate response